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 Citizen-an individual with certain rights and duties under a government and who, by birth or by choice, owes allegiance to that government  The Fourteenth.

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2  Citizen-an individual with certain rights and duties under a government and who, by birth or by choice, owes allegiance to that government  The Fourteenth Amendment, intended to make former slaves citizens, defined citizenship and offered equal protection under the law.

3  Naturalization- method of becoming a US citizen by choice rather than by birth. Requires living in US, having an interview, taking a test, and taking an oath.  Segregation-separation of people by race

4  Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) “separate but equal” facilities are legal  Jim Crow Laws- laws passed to separate communities  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) “separate but equal has no place”  Thurgood Marshall- Lawyer who led fight to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. Became 1 st black Supreme Court Justice

5  Southern Christian Leadership Conference- an American civil rights organization formed 1957. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a member and eventual leader.  Freedom Ride-Interstate bus rides which carried civil rights activists and which triggered violence.

6  Martin Luther King, Jr.-Civil rights leader who promoted nonviolent resistance, was shot and killed in 1968.  Selma, Alabama-site of Bloody Sunday, one of the first events which began to change public opinion about Civil Rights  Bloody Sunday-vicious attack in Selma, Alabama on black citizens lining up to register to vote.

7  Civil Rights Act of 1964-barred discrimination based on race, creed, or color  Voting Rights Act of 1965-guarenteed right to vote for African Americans  KKK- group which advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism

8  Black Panther Party-Black Advocacy group which supported the use of violence  Affirmative Action-programs for minorities supported by government as a means of providing equality  Reverse Discrimination-discrimination of minorities against the former perpetrators of discrimination

9  Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) 1972 – prevents discrimination for any reason, but aimed specifically at women’s rights, has not yet passed  Roe v. Wade (1973) – women’s freedom to choose abortion  Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - illegal to discriminate based on disability

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